Heavy snow hits the nation's capital

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Heavy snow piled up in Washington, D.C., on the evening of Feb. 11, quickly leading to slush-covered roads throughout the city.

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00:00Now let's get this started here with extreme storm chaser Aaron Jayjack,

00:03following this latest winter storm blasting its way across the mid-Atlantic. Aaron,

00:09how's it going out there? Looks like that snow is really accumulating.

00:15Oh, it's really dumping here in Washington, D.C., and in fact, you might be able to hear

00:20they've already started cleanup here. You can see back behind me the snowblower going right now,

00:24trying to clear the sidewalks here. Really starting to accumulate here in Washington,

00:28D.C. Even these roadways a little bit earlier, about an hour ago, this roadway was just wet,

00:33no accumulation. They've laid down a lot of salt in this area, but these snowfall rates,

00:38looking about that one inch per hour snowfall rate or so, are really starting to stack up here,

00:42making quite a nasty mess here in Washington, D.C. this evening. Now we are expecting around

00:47that three to six inches mark here in Washington, D.C. We've got reduced visibility. Of course,

00:53the sun has set. It's getting dark here, also reducing visibility, but before that sun set,

00:58I was looking out towards the White House, towards the Washington Monument area. Very hard to see

01:03those significant buildings here in Washington, D.C. due to the reduced visibility from all of

01:08this snow, and we will be tracking this storm here. I will be here in Washington, D.C. tonight

01:13and through tomorrow because tomorrow it looks like we will get another round of winter weather,

01:18looking more of like a wet event, so more of a mixed precip, possibly rain. So all this snow

01:24you see falling here now in Washington, D.C. will likely melt off by sometime late tomorrow as that

01:29rain comes through this area tomorrow, but tonight right here in Washington, D.C., it's quite a

01:34beautiful night. This is actually a gorgeous city to be in, in a winter storm, in the snow to see

01:39everything blanketed by the snow. Lots of lights here, lights lighting up like the Washington

01:44Monument, really make things look photogenic here in the nation's capital. We will be here

01:49this evening, and I'll be live with you guys through this event. Back to you guys.

01:55All right, Aaron, looking at the roadways right there, for that snowfall that's fallen so far,

02:00is that more of a compacting snow that can create some travel issues, or is it more that slushy kind

02:05which is good because that allows the road crews to be able to remove it a lot more efficiently?

02:10Yeah, right now it is that wet, slushy snow. I have been seeing a lot of crews of snowplows,

02:20they're actually running in teams of like three or four trying to clear the roadways here,

02:25but it is a wet, slushy snow. It's actually not too bad to drive on, your tires can get down

02:30through it, down to the roadway. So not too bad of a situation here in Washington, D.C. We are

02:36past peak rush hour, so most people are home now, and it looks like we'll continue to get

02:41this snow through the evening and overnight hours. Back to you guys. Thanks for your reporting there,

02:45Aaron Jayjack live in Washington, D.C. amid pretty significant snowstorm, the second big one of the

02:50season here, 7.2 inches back in early January, and we got another one that may rival that here

02:57later this evening and tonight with the second big storm of the season. We've had a couple of

03:02nickel and dime type storms in between as well. The deep blues from D.C. south to just a little

03:07bit north of Richmond, south of Fredericksburg, that's where some of the most impressive snowfall

03:12rates can be found, and some of this is increasing into south Delaware and central Delaware as well.

03:17The eastern shore of Maryland is seeing a lot of this as well. It's been a pretty good snow

03:22season there in areas like Tangier Island here and the Chesapeake Bay, and areas around Harrisonburg,

03:27Charlottesville. Still the snow, you have to head farther south and southwest to get into the icy

03:32zone here down into areas around Blacksburg and Roanoke. Heading a big step farther south,

03:37you're going to find the warmer side of things where we have some showers. We do have the

03:40lightning indicators turned on, not seeing any lightning right now. We've had some little flare

03:45ups at times earlier in this loop. You can see one of these cells produce some lightning here and

03:49there. At this point, it could be a little bit of strong wind associated with this band pulling

03:54north of Montgomery, Alabama, eastbound, but really it's all about the snow.

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